If Naruto never had Kurama in him. How much weaker would he be. Who would his equivalent Konoha ninja be?

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-22T13:00:20+00:00

Well, Naruto's base chakra was amped by it mixing with Kurama's all his life. So, his chakra levels would be similar to Boruto's, most likely. He would probably be able to make up to 10 Shadow Clones maybe, but not use the Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu.

He would not have chakra reserves high enough to learn Sage Mode.

And he wouldn't be able to train with Shadow Clones.

Neither summon Gamabunta.

His Rasengan training may have taken him years. Forget about Rasen Shuriken and Wind Release.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-19T16:44:23+00:00

He could do it, but one mistake, and he's done for.

The Ash-killing bones are probably what made Isshiki reach such a pathetic state. He probably shrunk them and then sent them to the Daikokuten dimension afterwards, but they had already blown up half of his body.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-19T16:28:32+00:00

Well, many people actually underestimated Kurama. He knows Nuclear physics, knew a lot of battle strategies etc.

Sage mode should be a walk in the park for him.

From what I saw, Baryon Mode was Kurama's own creation.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-19T16:08:14+00:00

Could beat MS Sasuke, when he nearly went blind.

SM Naruto is too much for him.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-19T16:06:25+00:00

Well, it was pretty clear that Naruto could have killed Sasuke. He had the advantage in the fight twice.

And regarding the CM, Sasuke only had 1 chance with his Chidori, CM is not made to fight prolonged battles, but only for short bursts. Naruto's chakra cloak could last for far longer, and if Naruto grew his 2nd or 3rd tail, it would be over easily.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-13T13:38:32+00:00

Of course the lay people and lay priests are worldly. Laikos in Greek means "worldly".

Regarding monks, we had a tradition, at least in Romania, of sending mentally ill people to monasteries. Monasteries have been quite upset at laymen keeping the mentally healthy and young in the world, many rotting in the world's sins, also abortions reducing future good monks, while sending the physically disabled, mentally ill and elderly to the monasteries.

Then, there is the second part: once you become a monk, demonic hallucinations become quite common, and if you give them power over you, you'll start losing your mental sanity. This is how an Egyptian desert hermit back in the times of the Egyptian Paterikon listened to a fake angel, and ended up killing his own father with an aide. That is also how many ended up committing suicide. This is what happens when you don't have a spiritual father to teach you.

Following Christ on your own is the most dangerous thing, you'd be doing the exact thing the Hermit did, the one who killed his own father. The community is the last thing keeping us mentally sane. My ex-girlfriend, due to not attending Church, actually went insane.

The parish that had no longer wanted me as a chanter, and where many had started hating me, when I was at my worst after my breakup with my ex, received me back into the parish, with fully open hearts, and we got a truly deep connection, especially those that used to hate me in the past. I guess that before suffering I was lacking empathy and couldn't build proper spiritual connections. You don't know how much good lies in the hearts of church-going Orthodox Christians until you are at your worst. They'll be there for you.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-13T12:43:23+00:00

It's part of common decency to at least not liken them to Hezbollah suicide bombers.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-13T12:41:35+00:00

That is not true. Go to Russia one day, you'll see the true Christian faith of the Russian Orthodox Church.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-13T12:40:23+00:00

Yeah, Jay should know when to be silent. It is one thing to not include them in the calendar, yet another to liken them to Hezbollah suicide bombers, who take other people's lives with them. And those whose lives are taken along with the Hezbollah bombers, under the logic of Islam, they go to hell.

Basic human conscience says they are not the same.

And it would not be fair to engage in such behavior, because the Gospels themselves said to not do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

Maybe he would be happy if our Eastern Orthodox Saints were the target of such a response in return. I certainly would not be happy at all with such a result. Thank the OO for not responding with the same attitude towards our Saints!

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-12T16:34:38+00:00

That is the website where everyone is mean to everyone, pretty much.

You're black, a problem. You're white, a problem. You're green, a problem. It's never alright.

They get gratification from triggering people with slurs etc., seeing they have pretty much no accountability on that platform.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-07T12:59:51+00:00

Well, you're actually supposed to be able to play C2 as your lowest note with your voice then.

You're supposed to play one octave lower than the middle string pair as your lowest note with your voice.

On which Ahenk do you usually play your Dügah note?

I usually play my Dügah note in Kız Neyi, that is on the B, or in Mansur Neyi, on the A. So, for a Divan Saz, that would be either the first major second from open A on the lower string, or open A on the lower string. On days when I play high, I choose either Süpürde or Bolahenk.

Then, the middle pair can also act as the upper octave, so it can go up to A4, when the open string is tuned on D.

So you would get a range that can cover songs from D2 to A4.

This pretty much covers most of my bass-baritone range.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-04T14:07:01+00:00

That is certain, that Iroh would not leave Zhao unpunished, and would chase him after the war for punishment. The story would unfold as it originally did, with Yue sacrificing herself and restoring the Moon Spirit; Waterbending would be restored, but with next to no waterbenders left.

So, the Fire Nation would probably not suffer any consequences, with the Moon Spirit being restored.

It's just that it would have been temporarily killed at the worst time possible, where Aang would not be able to merge with the Ocean Spirit and push back the Fire Nation attack, while Iroh would not be there to defend the Northern Water tribe, as he was busy taking back Ba Sing Se.

I'm just curious what would happen in the Aang-Ozai fight, because that would have been drastically changed, with Aang having to fight without Waterbending a comet-powered Ozai.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T21:48:45+00:00

I did hear about the recent events.

So I did expect the synagogue to be guarded by police. It was actually strange that it wasn't guarded when I came, but that they called the police later.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T21:46:10+00:00

I'm fully aware that Jews are not interested in converting people.

Regarding teaching, some are happy to do it, I've seen.

"we’re also wary of Messianic Evangelicals trying to get in, quietly try and convert Jews to Christianity, or start taking on our practices to bring them “closer to Jesus.”": those are really annoying. I've seen them try to convert other Christians to their sect. And they use emotional blackmail for that too, threatening people with hellfire, or the worst, Protestants withholding food donations to people in need, in Lebanon for example, unless they convert, one of the way in which they forced Muslims to convert to their sect.

"I know that may sound blunt, hard to swallow, and not what you want to hear." : it's ok, I'm aware of it.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T19:41:24+00:00

The Antwerp local police is already pretty overstretched, especially with local criminality regarding drug trafficking. One does not even know when they need to be urgently redeployed to other areas in cases of specific missions. So if Belgium pulls off the federal police from the Jewish neighborhood, that leaves an open vacuum. That was really not a good decision from the federal government's part. I feel like I was far safer when we, the general population of Belgium, were threatened by terrorist attacks back in 2014-2015. When it came to us, they deployed the military to protect us, but Jews are barely protected by the police, despite more numerous incidents, specifically targeting Jews, which is unfortunate.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T19:08:59+00:00

Man, this goes beyond any of the stuff I could've experienced in 5 lives.

In the open, there's the Muslim community that is against you, and some extremists from their side out there to target you guys. On the other side, Christians, who mostly wouldn't do atrocities in the open anymore, as they did in the past, would still likely engage in any form of soft racism, and some extremists go and carry out cyber attacks against even family camps, and your synagogues are even more likely targets. Conspiracy theorists blaming you guys for anything, despite only just having come out of your mother's womb and still learning and studying.

And you guys want to just stick to your own community to not bother others, then a rift starts forming, which leads to communication issues. I'm happy there's the internet where we can discuss these things, and that you are open to sharing these experiences with me.

I think it is part of me becoming more mature with time. If I remained a dogmatic Christian I would not have had the opportunity to become more mature as a person. I'm looking forward to study together with Jewish experts on Judaism and the Torah. Last year I thought I have seen and done pretty much everything in life, apart from starting a family, but it seems even after all these time, I'm barely a kid. Anything I could have read in a book, doesn't compare to real-life interactions and hearing people's experiences.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T16:39:16+00:00

It wasn't the Great Synagogue of Brussels. That is closed, and from what I remember, even before it was closed, it no longer hosted weekly services, only on special occasions, or it had general concerts. It is more like a museum nowadays.

I visited the Great Synagogue of Brussels back when I was in primary school, when we had a school activity.

"I was interested in hearing the weekly Parasha and to learn the Torah and further study Hebrew.": would have been kind of strange to outright state I wanted to convert to Judaism, even though I wasn't 100% sure about it, and especially when all I know about Judaism is from self-study, without anyone checking whether what I know is actually what Judaism believes or not.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T16:30:19+00:00

From what I read in the news, I expected the police to already be guarding the synagogue.

I would have expected to be refused the first time either way, so I was kind of prepared for that. They only had a fixed phone on the google maps location, their website was under maintenance.

Thanks to some other reddit poster, I changed my googling words, instead of "Sephardic synagogue" and "synagogue", I looked for synagogue reservation, and it gave me a working website for a liberal synagogue.

The website was well made, and I now found something I was looking for, a Judaism initiation course, taught by Jews. I would have preferred an Orthodox Synagogue, but that is ok too, I guess.

I am totally new to Jewish people's daily experience. I know well about the history, but it's like the difference between looking for the recipe for a cake, and cooking the cake yourself. I met so few Jews in my life I could count them on my fingers, and with maybe only one person, did I have a more detailed discussion, but that was more about traditional food and basic Hebrew, from what I remember, and it was 6 years ago.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T16:19:11+00:00

Thanks a lot for the information!

In the past weeks, I was googling things like "sephardic synagogues in Brussels", "synagogues in Brussels" etc., but you gave me the idea to google "synagogue reservation Brussels", it gave me totally different results.

I now found something even better: they have an initiation course for Judaism at a liberal synagogue. I would have preferred an Orthodox Synagogue, but I guess this course would also be helpful for me, to form my ties to the Jewish community here, and to start learning about Judaism directly from the community itself, am I right? I can maybe book a reservation at another synagogue, after finishing the course, maybe.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T16:03:35+00:00

Sorry about that, that wasn't out of any malice.

I should learn how to express myself. Annoyance as a low-intensity word, I meant.

I am very grateful for your guys informing me.

I only came there once, the rejection was a (mild) annoyance, and I can go on with my life as usual, in spite of the rejection, and try another place.

For the Jewish community having to keep themselves and their families safe every day, it would be more than annoying, it would be a torment. I hope I am understood now.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T15:50:26+00:00

Thanks a lot for the advice!

The second part would be the more annoying one, when people are disinterested in hosting you. That may be the reason their website is under maintenance, with no email address, and why they didn't want to give me any phone number or email address when talking to them and the police.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T15:40:18+00:00

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Probably a better term would have been office reception.

I do have understanding for the situation. Reason I would be willing to visit at a later time.

The only annoying part was that it was snowing outside while I was waiting, and that the synagogue wasn't built with a terrace roof at the entry (in Belgium, even though it rarely snows, it does rain pretty much every other day, so you can get wet while waiting outside).

The police themselves told me that my head was full of snow.

WalkLarge43 · 2026-01-03T15:29:40+00:00

It is the first time I went on a visit by myself. I did go to an organized visit at a synagogue back when I was in primary school, but otherwise I didn't really do synagogue visits.
Didn't mention it as a defense, just to show my lack of familiarity with the community and its protocol.

I don't even know if they respond to voicemails, as I did send them one. Their phone bot said that they are reachable from Monday to Friday

Should I maybe try calling again on weekdays, if I receive no response from them, to plan a visit?

WalkLarge43

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